Retail listings suggest Microsoft may be planning to update the design for Xbox Series X game boxes.
Limited Run Games’listingfor Clock Tower Rewind (pictured above) features a new box art template, as doesbox art(below) for the newly announcedXbox version of Kena Bridge of Spirits.
Rather than listing the game’s platformsin black lettering on a white backgroundnext to theXboxlogo on the top left of the box, the platforms are listed on the top right of the updated packaging, in white lettering atop the larger background artwork.
Microsoftis gearing up to present theXbox Games Showcase– the first to include games acrossActivision Blizzard,Bethesda, and Xbox Game Studios – on June 9.
Kicking off at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST, the showcase will reportedly be used to announcerelease dates for Xbox’s first-party line-upfor the remainder of 2024.
Bethesda is said to be targeting a September release forStarfield’s Shattered Space expansion, which wasrecently given a fall launch window.
Activisionis reportedly planning a late October release date forCall of Duty: Black Ops 6, which willreceive its own ‘Direct’ presentationimmediately following the main Xbox event.
Further reading
AvowedandMicrosoft Flight Simulator 2024are reportedly likely to arrive in November, andIndiana Jones and the Great Circleis expected to follow in December.
The Xbox showcase could also be used to announceGears of War 6anda new Doom game.
